Acts 10:28
And he said to them: You know how abominable it is for a man that is a Jew, to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
27And talking with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
Cross References
Isaiah 65:5That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.
John 4:9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
John 18:28Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning; and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.
Acts 10:34And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very deed I perceive, that God is not a respecter of persons.
Acts 11:9And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.
Acts 22:21And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off, will I send thee.
Matthew Henry on Acts 10:20-34
Peter Directed to Go to Cornelius; Peter Goes to Cornelius; Interview between Peter and Cornelius. 19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. 20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them. 21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come? 22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that… Read the whole commentary →